(Never mind that they both have regular access to cars in which they can presumably drive off at any time.)Īs the central conceit around which everything revolves, the game is patently ludicrous and wholly nonsensical. Thompsonįor Heather, especially - whose best friends Natalie (Jessica Sula) and Bishop (Camron Jones) live in far nicer homes than the trailer she shares with her flighty single mom Sherri (Rachel Bay Jones) and vulnerable little sister Lily (Kariana Karhu) - Ray seems to be the first person she’s ever met who understands her pressing need to flee their hometown and never look back.
The Panic game yields a winner-take-all cash prize of just $50,000 - not enough for the rich, college-bound kids to gamble on their very lives by, say, playing Russian Roulette or walking across a highway blindfolded, but enough to inspire dreams of moving away and starting over somewhere else in young adults like Heather and Ray, who’ve long witnessed older family members struggle.Ĭast: Olivia Welch, Mike Faist, Ray Nicholson, Camron Jones, Enrique Murciano, Todd Williams, Lee Eddy, David W. “I don’t think good things are going to happen to me anymore,” he sighs - not as long as he stays in Cary. “We’re both trash,” declares bad boy Ray (Ray Nicholson) to good girl Heather ( Olivia Welch), citing their broken families and the dirty or pitiful looks the teens get around town.
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Named after an annual tradition in which the recent high-school grads of a small Texas town compete in a risky game that resulted in the deaths of two players the previous year, the series finally lets us feel the weight of the decision to participate in the summer-long tournament at the end of the fourth episode. There is approximately one good scene in Amazon’s new Hunger Games-inspired YA mystery-thriller Panic.
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